To Work Is Good When You Are Called

Regardless of what you may find yourself doing in life, there seems to be no way around work. The more I have pondered this matter the more I have found it to be paradoxical.
My father was a metal worker his whole life and he was good at it. One of my grandfathers was a salesman and from what I can tell, he was good at it.

It seems that we "get good" at whatever we do for work. This comes as no surprise considering we spend a minimum of 40 hours a week doing whatever it is that we do for work.How does 40 hours stack up through the course of your life? Let's find out.

Daily - 8 hours

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Weekly - 40 hours
Monthly -  about 184 hours
Yearly - 2208 hours (92 days)
Each decade - 22080 (920 days or 2.52 years)
50 years - 110,400 hours (4600 days or 12.6 years)

No wonder why we "get good" at our jobs. We do them all the time! This should cause us to consider why we work. Do we work just to get home? Do we work because we love the challenge? What is it?

I propose that work is good, especially when you are called. When we have a calling in life, it makes life worth living. Whether that be to provide job for breadwinners or teach the youth or be the president; when we choose to work in a way that our work becomes our calling in life, then work becomes "good."

Even better, life does too.